The Media Awareness Resources for Teachers are designed for PD purposes for teachers and parent groups.The Media Awareness Network's professional development workshops offer teachers a comprehensive program on Safety, Privacy, Marketing, Cyberbullying and Evaluation of online information
The Media Awareness network also provides many resources for students to use to grow their understand and proficiency in utilizing the web in safe and appropriate ways. Resources for students include Passport to the Internet (grades 4-8); My World (grades 9-12); Reality Check (grade 9-12)
In this day and age our students will need to know how to do research in a way that allows them to locate and authenticate information. We’ll take a look at a variety of research tools available to teachers and students through the portal.
The millenials are a video generation, as evidenced by the millions of user-generated videos on YouTube. Two wonderful learning resources on the web allow teachers and students access to thousands of videos, vetted for classroom learning.
“Just Google It”. How many times do you hear students use those words. But with the explosion of information available, how do we effectively mine the data to find what we are looking for? We’ll take a quick look at a few simple search techniques for teachers and students alike, and maybe even peek at a couple of new search sites.
Before we can build anything we need raw materials. The same holds true for digital constructions. We’ll take a look at free and legal image, video and music resources for you and your students to use to create our own digital content while learning about respecting intellectual property at the same time.
Jeff Whipple, School District 18
DecemberTheme: Social Media Tools & Learning Networks
Connecting with classes around the world is a powerful learning experience, and the synchronous video conference is a powerful tool for connecting students in conversation. Skype allows site-to-site and multi-site audio-video connections, allowing student presentations and conversations for learning.
What blogs brought to conversations, wikis bring to content. Basically quickly editable websites, wikis provide a powerful space for teachers and students to share content. A perfect platform for classroom websites, course content management or collaboration on a project, wikis are still the webs most powerful tool.
Simply put, a Glog is a kind of poster —fully designed by you! A Glog is a unique creation made up of text, images, music, and video. It can be colorful, edgy, emo, or rock—it’s up to you to make your Glog stand out. Glogs are a perfect way for your students to express who they are and what they have learned.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds //images, documents, and videos// and allows students to navigate slides and leave comments through voice, text, audio file, or video. //Share// a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too. Users can //doodle// while commenting, use multiple //identities//, and pick which comments are shown through //moderation//. VoiceThreads can even be //embedded// to show and receive comments in wikis or blogs.
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories your students can make to share, read, and print. Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They’re curiously fun.
A free download, you and your students can model anything you can imagine. Redecorate your living room. Invent a new piece of furniture. Model your city for Google Earth. There's no limit to what you can create with SketchUp.
Kids love avatars. These two sites allow students to create talking photos or an animated avatar that can be embedded into their wiki or blog. Great tool for literacy and personalizing spaces.
Comics are part of many student’s lives. Find out how they can use powerful web-based authoring tools to create their very own comic strips to share with the world.
There is nothing wrong with students playing games in class…if they make the games. Scratch is a free software application that lets kids create their own games or interactive stories using an easy drag-and-drop interface and some elementary programming.Join guest host Wayland Dickson (SD14) as he welcomes us back from March Break with a look at this fun and interactive creativity tool.
The Portal offers wonderful opportunities for connection and collaboration for students between home and school and each other. One of the emerging platforms is “My Site” a web-based space (available from school and home) where students can archive content and resources for easy retrieval and work collaboratively in a safe and shared space with other students.
Learning in our hyper-connected world is increasingly a social enterprise, demanding safe and efficient spaces to connect and collaborate as learners. The portal provides this space through the power of the virtual classroom platform. Sharing and assessment becomes a snap and teachers and students can easily connect for learning in a safe and secure environment. Join us this afternoon as Chris Sherwood (Department of Education) and Angela Taylor (District 14) give us a brief overview of how it works and the differences it can make in your classroom.
Chris Sherwood, Department of Education / Angela Taylor, District 14
You have a SMART Board and the Notebook software, now you can use the image and animation resources contained in the software to create dynamic and engaging activities for students.
In addition to the graphics and animations in Notebook, the Lesson Activity Toolkit offers a wide variety of ready-made templates for learning activities for your students. Just fill in the content and your class is ready to go!
In addition to SMARTBoards and software, SMART also offers a number of peripherals that are made to work inside the Notebook software. Senteos (commonly called clickers) are an individualized student response system while the document camera allows display of paper and physical resources.
Ever wish you could save your lessons for students to review? Now you can! By using the simple SMART Recorder software, you and your students can make videos of what you are learning. From recording and posting lessons on the class website to students teaching their colleagues about their learning, it’s a powerful tool for sharing.
Tech20Tuesdays - 2011-12
Note: To view archived sessions please click on the link for the session below.
Media Awareness Network - PD Tools for Teachers
Media Awareness Network - Tools for Students, Passport to the Internet, My World, Reality Check
Portal Research Tools -World Book and EBSCO
We’ll take a look at a variety of research tools available to teachers and students through the portal.
Aliant Learning Center & NFB
Making the Most of the Web -Search Techniques& Tools
We’ll take a quick look at a few simple search techniques for teachers and students alike, and maybe even peek at a couple of new search sites.
School District 18
Creative Commons
Skype
Wikis
Glogster
Voicethread.....
Storybird
Google Sketch Up
Voki & Blabberize
Comic Creator
Scratch
MySite
Virtual Classoom
Notebook – Gallery Essentials
Lesson Activity Toolkit
SMART Peripherals - Senteos & Document Cameras
SMART Recorder